African Poetry

1.
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth 4.24 avg rating β€” 21,147 ratings
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The January Children
The January Children 4.52 avg rating β€” 836 ratings
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Fuchsia (African Poetry Book)
Fuchsia (African Poetry Book) 3.95 avg rating β€” 39 ratings
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The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony (African Poetry Book)
The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony (African Poetry Book) 4.42 avg rating β€” 107 ratings
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Your Body Is War
Your Body Is War 4.47 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
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The Careless Seamstress (African Poetry Book)
The Careless Seamstress (African Poetry Book) 4.05 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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Madman at Kilifi (African Poetry Book)
Madman at Kilifi (African Poetry Book) 4.12 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
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The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn (African Poetry Book)
The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn (African Poetry Book) 4.17 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013 (African Poetry Book)
The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013 (African Poetry Book) 4.18 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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A Warning to the House That Holds Me
A Warning to the House That Holds Me 4.17 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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When the Wanderers Come Home (African Poetry Book)
When the Wanderers Come Home (African Poetry Book) 4.08 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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100 Days (Robert Kroetsch Series)
100 Days (Robert Kroetsch Series) 4.36 avg rating β€” 92 ratings
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Lost in a Quatrain
Lost in a Quatrain 4.65 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head 4.20 avg rating β€” 9,077 ratings
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Sacrament of Bodies
Sacrament of Bodies 4.33 avg rating β€” 121 ratings
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Logotherapy
Logotherapy 3.89 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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β€˜mamaseko
β€˜mamaseko 4.67 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Stray (African Poetry Book)
Stray (African Poetry Book) 3.27 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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The River in the Belly
The River in the Belly 3.66 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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red cotton
red cotton 4.73 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Kollektive Amnesie
Kollektive Amnesie 4.44 avg rating β€” 667 ratings
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Sardo Dance: Collection of Poems
Sardo Dance: Collection of Poems 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems (African Poetry Book)
Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems (African Poetry Book) 4.13 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Your Crib, My Qibla (African Poetry Book)
Your Crib, My Qibla (African Poetry Book) 4.22 avg rating β€” 69 ratings
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Sacred Hope
Sacred Hope 4.36 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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Sisters' Entrance
Sisters' Entrance 4.32 avg rating β€” 369 ratings
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Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes
Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes 3.62 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Translations from the Night: Selected Poems of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (African Writers Series ; 167) (English and French Edition)
Translations from the Night: Selected Poems of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (African Writers Series ; 167) (English and French Edition) 3.90 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
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Questions for Ada
Questions for Ada 4.34 avg rating β€” 1,837 ratings
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Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969–2018 (African Poetry Book)
Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969–2018 (African Poetry Book) 3.57 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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In the Net (African Poetry Book)
In the Net (African Poetry Book)
by: Hawad
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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In Praise of Defeat: Poems
In Praise of Defeat: Poems 4.42 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Fresco: Selected Poetry
Fresco: Selected Poetry 4.16 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
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Breaking the Silence: Anthology of Liberian Poetry (African Poetry Book)
Breaking the Silence: Anthology of Liberian Poetry (African Poetry Book) 4.67 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology (African Poetry Book)
Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology (African Poetry Book) 4.21 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
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Who Needs a Story? Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic
Who Needs a Story? Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic 3.31 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Songs We Learn from Trees: An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry
Songs We Learn from Trees: An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry 3.83 avg rating β€” 12 ratings